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NEW MEXICO, ROUTE 66. Defiance to Glenrio (Arizona State Border till Texas State Border) New Mexico claims 745 kilometres of Route 66’s Chicago to Los Angeles journey. The interstate (i40) runs over top of the old highway in many places. The desert landscape, the red cliffs, pine wooded hills and…

Phoenix to Holbrook Leaving Phoenix, we decided to bypass the highway and drove Northwest towards Wickenburg and the old mining towns of Congress and Stanton at the base of the Weaver Mountains. The highway climbs the mountains on a series of switchbacks, known as Yarnell Hill, offering spectacular views of…

SUDAN Sudan is one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world, with about one-third of its inhabitants dependent on farming and animal husbandry for their livelihoods. Sudan is the largest, yet one of the least visited, countries in Africa overlanders. Much of the Middle East has a reputation for…

Namibia is a tourist destination in Africa offering great wild life, 2 nomad tribes the Himba and the Herero, The second largest canyon in the world and Etosha National Park is the best National Park in Africa. For those interested in off road driving lots of huge dunes, dry river…

There are 54 countries in Africa each with numerous dialects, tribal groups, traditions, landscapes and wildlife species. Many people refer to Africa as if it is a country. It is a continent and includes 54 independent countries with South Sudan being the latest to join. Each has its own currency-national…

Hi All Below our journey overland from Thailand to Europe. Covering Thailand, Borneo, Malaysia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and entering Europe in Poland. Ukraine and Poland are also covered in our European update.

As part of our overland around the world journey find attached a 9-minute compilation of 2 years travel, from the Arctic in Winter to Cambodia in South East Asia   Covering,   Far Oer Islands, Iceland, Far Northern Europe, Norway, Northern Russia (Siberia) in winter. Mongolia, China, Tibet, Laos, and…

BENIN (WEST AFRICA) Our first visit to Benin was in 1977 when Benin was a Marxist/Leninist (1975-1990) country under control of the Military Council of the Revolution. The capital of Benin even had a Red Square) Corruption No pay no passage. We thought we were used to seeing bribing in Africa…

Iceland is the world’s youngest country and is still growing. Most recent in 2010, the spectacular eruptions at Fimmvorouhals and Eyjafjallajokull volcano captured the world spotlight and renewed the country’s nickname as the “Land of Fire and Ice”. If you are brave enough to venture into Iceland in winter, then…

Tibet, the remote and mainly-Buddhist territory known as the “roof of the world”, is governed as an autonomous region of China. But the allegiances of many Tibetans lie with the exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, seen by his followers as a living god, but by China as a separatist…